What I should have Posted a long time ago...

If you had noticed, I never really posted about how I finished some of the SD soldiers in the picture at the right corner of my blog. The fact is, I actually had forgotten to blog about this specific soldier because I had tried a lot of new things, well I consider them to be a lot at least. Some of the new things which I had tried was, my first fully painted model, this was before my Heavyarms, if I'm not mistaken I did this either early this year, in January or last year. Secondly was adding extra panel-lines to the model, I had never really changed much on a model before other than sanding it or painting certain parts.

But anyways, lets jump to the model, I initially started looking for this particular model after spotting the different looking Military Unit at a shop in Sungai Wang, KL. So, when I went back home, I attempted to find it only because it was different. So after looking around for a while, I found out that this model could only be obtained by buying the individual Military Unit packs, so after looking around for, and trying my best to see whether the model inside the plastic was different, I bought 1, my bro bought 1. And the very reason I started fully painting a model was because I had to for this one, in the pictures below you can see that it is originally red in colour.

I started off my painting a base colour of white on the face, ribbon and legs. But I later decided that they would be grey, to make them, darker than the standard Military Unit, and also just to show that these guys are the bad guys. I had also etched onto the forehead and sanded it flat. I tried my best to make it look like the original picture of it in the anime. Quite a rough job, my first time anyways.

Just a comparison between mine and my bro's, mine was red, my bro's was orange, as show in the pic above. And you can see the pencil drawing on where to etch the panel-lines on the forehead. You can also clearly see on the orange one, the forehead looks different.

The arm, or arms, were quite a pain to paint, cause they had at white colour in the joint area, which so happens to be one of the smallest and hardest to reach areas of my paint brush, but managed to pull it off, with a lot of re-painting.

The base colours are painted on, and as you can see, with much spill over.

Painted on the green colour for the main body colour. This did not need a base coat, cause I was pretty sure the dark green would stick well to the plastic, also, the whole model it red anyways. Thankfully, I did not need to mix and paints for this colour, it was readily available.

The above images were after some initial paint-overs and some minor panel-lining to the head area. You can see the gold which I painted on, and how messy of a job I did on the first few coats of paint on. You can also see the grey colour I painted on the the legs and face area. The ribbon, however, I maintained pure flat white.

After a lot of cleaning up, and some finishing touches to the body area, and panel-lining, the body was finally finished, but the eye visor and eye had yet to be painted. At that time, I was still thinking of what colour to paint the eye, I was thinking of a light yellow, bright red and light pink. But I went with light pink cause that was how it was in the anime.

And this is the final product for the main body and head, they're pretty much the same part anyway. I painted the visor glossy black to give it a shiny look. And you can see how rough my painting was.

A comparison between my bro's Military Unit and my almost finished model. I was going to use my Military Units, but they were quite messy, so I went with my bro's much cleaner models.

The finished model with my bro's finished model. The arms took quite a while to paint and clean up because of how small they the grey areas and the hands were.

And at last the model was finished!! Took me a while for the entire model to be completed but in the end I was quite worth the time. However, this was one of my roughly painted models, look at the texture on some of the area, you can clearly see how I didn't mix enough thinner into the paint to give it a smooth texture. Nevertheless, a great piece I added to my collection. I should have posted you on my blog earlier, forgive me model...

Farid

Just to keep it going

Its been a while since the last post, and I did say I was trying to keep updating regularly so here's a post. Anyways, quite busy with classes recently and also having a hard time keeping up with the system, I'm lagging behind while others go on with their normal lives.

Well, nothing relatively new has been happening with my gundam models, and although I have quite a few to build, they are not here with me and the ones that are here, I am thinking about whether or not to go with it. And to those of you who don't know, I'm not back home, and I had a hard time looking for hobby shops that sell tamiya paint, most sell Mr. Hobby.

But while I was in this state of laggy-ness, a lot has been happening around me. Nintendo had just launched a new console, the Wii U, quite a few free-to-play games have been released, and example would be Blacklight : Retribution and also the soon to be in open beta, Hawken, which I have been excited about. Sadly, finding the time for games, has always been a problem, and oh how I yearn for a holiday. And speaking of holidays, I recently finished my 4 weeks of holiday. And throughout the holiday, I finally managed to get back to my old hobby, which I have neglected for almost 5 months, and no, I'm not talking about gundam modelling, its drawing. Strangely throughout the past 5 months, starting from, either it was June or May, I hardly drew anything. But suddenly during the holiday the feeling cam back!! It was nice doing it again, and I managed to get some really nice drawings done, but all still need touching up. If any of you who currently follow my blog, and check on every update (not sure if you exist) you might have remembered seeing a picture on the right side of my blog titled MFR. Well, that was actually a comic I was planning to work on, but after I tried starting on the first few pages, I realized, I needed to get so many things done. The story line, the dialogue for the characters, character design, and collecting samples to draw parts of the city have yet to be done. Then I was like "What do I start with first?" I started with character design. And since the comic will have robots in it, I did a little research on robots as well. And only now do I appreciate the trouble Manga Artists go through to give a good and at the same time easily remembered story for their Mangas. So, its still on going, and I think you can imagine how long a comic that is done in free time will take if a dedicated Manga Artist can take years to finish a single manga. I'm not starting big, just wanting to squeeze out 1 manga, 1 volume for my story.

Well, that's pretty much it, was gonna talk about the world of pokemon, but maybe for a different post.




Farid

Fully-Complete Heavyarms Custom, Fully Loaded!!

And finally, my HG Gundam Heavyarms Custom is complete. I managed to find the time to paint and glue together the final parts to complete this model. The final parts that needed completing were the Twin Gatling guns, both of which were not glued together yet, and a little finishing touches to the opened missile packs on the hip, waist, and legs. The Chest Gatling Guns of the mobile suit too lacked any sort of painting when I left it. And when I wanted to continue this model when I came back, I didn't really know where to start. But finally, I started with the twin gatling guns, came up with a quick mixture to paint it, and managed to finish it in less than 4 days. This would be the very first model I actually fully hand-painted, it took a lot of work, but the work paid off. And now, to show you!!

(Above) These were earlier photos I took, but I never uploaded them in the previous post, this was the first few steps before painting, and my second try on using putty to remove seam-lines, the work was messy, I have to admit.

(Above) Both completed legs!

(Above) This is jumping straight to a few days ago, I tried the mixture I came up with, which was for the dark grey on the gatling gun 1 part Medium Grey and 1 part Flat Black, and the colour looked pretty nice for such a simple mixture. The barrels were painted with Metallic Grey.

(Above) The model cleaned up, and by this time, I had also painted the left shoulder armour, the internals by the way, so that I could display the missile pods.

(Above) Tried out having him hold the twin gatling gun.

(Above) Also took the liberty of painting the tips of the barrel in the same Metallic Grey, and it looks awesome!

(Above) There we go, fully-painted! But a bit rough...

The above photos were before I painted all the other parts, mainly the other twin gatling gun, and the opened missile packs. And if you notice, the white armour around the neck in the photos below don't have the black panel-lines anymore, I painted them over, cause it looked a little too messy.

(Above) All weapons ready to fire!! And I just love how Heavyarms looks with all his weapons ready to fire. It almost like art~

(Above) The missile packs on the hip and waist, these ones were the very last to finish.

(Above) The Chest Gatling Guns, all painted in Metallic Grey.

So that's pretty much everything for this model, might be one of the best ones I made this year, but I'm also working on the anime version after finding the model in KL and buying it instantly. Well to sum it up, the mixtures used for this model. The White on the legs and other white parts (1 part Medium Grey, 5 parts Flat White), the Marine Blue for the wrists and other parts (1 part Flat White, 1 part Light Green, 1 part Flat Blue), the Black for the missile packs (1 part Flat White, 3 parts Flat Black), the Grey for the missile pods (Neutral Grey), Dark Grey for hands and joints (Dark Grey), Gold on V-fin, inside the thrusters and shoulder part (Gold Leaf), Twin Gatling Gun Grey (1 part Medium Grey, 1 part Flat Black), Metallic Grey for the thrusters, Gatling Gun barrel, Machine Cannons, Chest Gatling Guns and Vulcan Cannons (all painted Metallic Grey). That's all, finish!!

Farid

MG XXXG-01S Shenlong Gundam is now finished!!

I have been working on a model, which I never really mentioned in my previous posts, mainly because I didn't remember to mention it. So my poor Shenlong was built in silence... well, since I always build models in silence anyway, other than the computer playing tunes repeatedly. I've always like the models in the Wing universe, I started liking gundam models from this universe anyway, and apart from Heavyarms which  was always my favourite, I had a small liking for Shenlong. But when I saw Nataku, I liked it even more! Then the MG for this model was announced and immediately I knew I had to get it. Thankfully at that time, my older bro decided in having all five of the Gundam models in Gundam Wing, Wing, Deathscythe, Heavyarms, Sandrock and Shenlong, so I decided in getting Heavyarms and Shenlong for my part in the collection. Anyways, I actually very happy with the model, excellent build quality, the model looks great, nub marks are easily hidden, and it feels pretty solid! I uploaded quite a few photos, enjoy!

(Above) I try not using the stickers and paint on the details for the eyes and sensors instead. I was surprised actually seeing how they turned out to be shiny. 

(Above) The model from various angles, I thinned out the panel-lines for the shield by scratching it off with a satay stick, which was sharpened a little. But maybe a little thicker would look good too...

(Above) The pilot, tried as best I can to take a photo of him inside. Hopefully, he is visible, that Wufei.

(Above) Size of the pilot in comparison. I painted his skin using Tamiya Desert Yellow. And it works pretty well, was too lazy to mix paints for such a small amount, no offense Wufei...

 (Above) The Dragon Fang!! Might be the actual reason behind me buying this model, though I wanted a little more solid weight on it, it still looks cool!

(Above) The Beam Trident. Its pretty hard to pose the model with it compared to the Dragon Fang.

Well, that's pretty much it. I didn't take any photos for the progress when completing the model, cause I was having too much fun building it, I didn't have the heart to stop in the middle. An awesome model in the end!!

Farid